Someone just posted this like a week ago, that’s not what wage theft is and deliberately misusing terms like that makes us look bad. Stop. You aren’t helping.
Upvoted you, downvoted the post, because, while this is a huge problem, it’s not wage theft.Just saw the community. Carry on.
That’s not wage left, that’s capitalism.
By equivocating the 2 you dilute the meaning of wage theft.
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Just because it’s a meme doesn’t mean it can’t make a rhetorical statement, and in this case the meme does.
Memes can be used as a fantastic tool for sparking discussions on topics, just as rhetorical statements and questions are.
Hell, a meme is, by definition, a thing that transmits information between people. Sure, some can be humorous, but the word is about communication of concepts.
Why did you delete it?
No the fuck it fucking isn’t.
True but…
What is it called when one company buys all the other ones & charges extortionate prices? Maybe with a sprinkle of selling lots of brands with the same crap inside?
I can only think of “late stage capitalism” but there must be a more technically correct name for it.
Edit: how can I forget the word monopoly? What is wrong with me? ?
Alternatively, Big Bird could go with the establishment definition of wage theft and mention it’s the largest form of theft.
As Adam Smith observed, the profits of stock are inversely proportional to the wages of labor. When capitalists are profiting, you’re suffering.
The US was able to see capitalists profit and workers have high wages when they had abundant access to stolen resources from the Native Americans. When there are vast opportunities, everyone can win. After that expansion period ends, the capitalists and workers compete for scarce power in society.
Industrialization and technological advancements are similarly able to realize benefits for all, but that boon will always end. Like how ecoli bacteria can only replicate exponentially for brief periods, spending most of their existence in relative starvation, we can’t all benefit.
The stock market booming is antithetical to worker wellbeing without corresponding leaps forward in our use of resources, or by taking resources from elsewhere. Stocks going up is bad unless it can be justified.
that is literally not what that means https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
When a worker is receiving less then what they’re worth it’s theft
While I don’t disagree with it being theft, it’s not wage theft
They’re different kinds of theft
All profit is stolen wages.
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